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Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Sleeping Girl’ Sells for $44.8 Million

1 week agoArts37 comments5338 Views
Recently, Roy Lichtenstein's Sleeping Girl from 1964 sold for a record-breaking $44.8 million USD at Sotheby's Evening Sale of Contemporary Art. The comic book-inspired and postwar American art phenomenon beat last year’s record sale of $43.2 million USD set at Christie’s...

Original Apple Contract Signed by Steve Jobs Fetches $1.6 Million at Sotheby’s

December 14, 2011Tech17 comments1971 Views
The original contract that made Apple into a technological institution, and signed by founders Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, just fetched a cool $1.6 million USD at a Sotheby's auction. This staggering number was ten times the amount that it was originally...

Damien Hirst’s Auction Gamble

September 15, 2008Uncategorized0 comment3 Views
With much news and controversy surrounding today's opening of Damien Hirst's massive auction Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, The Wall Street Journal offers a perspective on the massive undertaking. With millions of dollars at stake, the auction and its surrounding events...

Auction (Red) by Sotheby’s

November 30, 19990 comment
Damien Hirst along with Bono from the band U2 has organized Auction (Red) which is an art auction at the Sotheby's auction house starting February 14th. The proceeds of the auction will go towards the fighting diseases like Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Artists that will...